1969 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1966 1967 1968 – 1969 – 1970 1971 1972

1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the last year of the 1960s.

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Movies released
Hit songs
New Books
Images for kids
See also

Events

January 12 – Led Zeppelin's first album is released.
January 20 – Richard Nixon becomes President of the United States, after Lyndon Johnson.
February 3 – Yasser Arafat becomes Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
April 9 – Around 300 students take over Harvard University, because they do not like the Vietnam War being fought.
May 10 – Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
May 20 – National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on Vietnam War protesters in California.
May 31 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" at their "Bed-In" in Montreal.
June 8 – Nixon announces that 25,000 US troops will start to leave Vietnam before September.
July 8 – As promised, some US troops begin to leave Vietnam.
July 20 – The Apollo 11 mission makes Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first people on the Moon.
August 15 – The Woodstock music festival starts in Upstate New York.
August 17 – Hurricane Camille hits Mississippi, killing 248 people.
August 31 – Boxer Rocky Marciano dies in a plane crash on the day before his 46th birthday.
September 1 – King Idris I of Libya is removed from power in a coup.
September 7 – Monty Python's Flying Circus airs for the first time on British television.
October 15 – Hundreds of thousands of people across the US protest against the Vietnam War by not going to work.
October 21 – Willy Brandt becomes the first SPD-Chancellor of Germany
November 9 – A group of American Indians takes over Alcatraz Island and holds it for 19 months.
November 13 – Up to 500,000 anti-war protesters march and protest in Washington DC.
December 1 – The United States holds the first "draft lottery", to pick who is going to be sent to fight in Vietnam.

Births

January 2 – Christy Turlington, American model
January 3 – Michael Schumacher, German Formula one driver
January 5 – Marilyn Manson, American singer
January 14 – Dave Grohl, American musician
January 16 – Roy Jones, Jr., American professional boxer
January 18 – Dave Bautista, American professional wrestler
February 1 – Brian Krause, American actor
February 11 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress
March 6 – Greg Scott, English television presenter
April 25 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
May 14 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
May 25 – Stacy London, American fashion consultant
June 14 – Steffi Graf, German tennis player
June 15 – Oliver Kahn, German football player
June 27 – Colleen Fitzpatrick, American singer and actress
July 20 – Josh Holloway, American actor
July 24 – Jennifer Lopez, American singer and actress
July 27 – Triple H, American professional wrestler
August 6 – Elliott Smith, American singer and musician (d. 2003)
August 18 – Edward Norton, American actor
August 19 – Matthew Perry, American actor
August 28 – Jack Black, American actor, comedian, and musician
October 24 - Adela Noriega, Mexican television actress
November 10 – Jens Lehmann, German football player
December 4 – Jay-Z, American rapper
December 9 – Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
December 19 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
December 28 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer scientist
Buckethead, American musician

Deaths

January 1 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
January 31 – Meher Baba, Indian mystic (b. 1894)
February 26 – Levi Eshkol, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
March 28 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
June 2 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
June 22 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
August 9 – Sharon Tate, American actress (b. 1943)
August 31 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
September 2 – Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam (b. 1890)
October 21 – Jack Kerouac, American writer and poet (b. 1922)

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (for his work on the theory of elementary particles)
Chemistry – Derek H R Barton, Odd Hassel
Medicine – Max Delbrück, Alfred D Hershey, Salvador E Luria
Literature – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer
Peace – International Labour Organization
Economics – Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen

Movies released

Hit songs

"Aquarius"/"Let The Sunshine In" – Fifth Dimension
"The Ballad of John and Yoko" – The Beatles
"But You Know I Love You" – Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
"The Boxer" – Simon and Garfunkel
"In The Ghetto" – Elvis Presley
"Cloud Nine" – The Temptations
"Come Together" – The Beatles
"Get Back" – The Beatles
"Good Times Bad Times" – Led Zeppelin
"Honky Tonk Women" – Rolling Stones
"I'd Wait A Million Years" – The Grass Roots
"Listen to the Band" – The Monkees
"Pinball Wizard" – The Who
"Proud Mary" – Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" – B.J. Thomas
"Something" – The Beatles
"Suspicious Minds" – Elvis Presley
"Touch Me" – The Doors
"Whole Lotta Love" – Led Zeppelin

New Books

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle – Vladimir Nabokov
The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1969 para niños

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